radis
\ʁa.di\
The verdict
“radis” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,099. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,099
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Légume potager du genre Raphanus (famille des Brassicaceae), dont la racine est comestible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-radis · radis · French
radis · rank #29,099 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,099
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH quantitatif
Nearest frequency peer: quantitatif (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « radis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- PVP
PVP
70,906 corpus weight
- quantifier
quantifier
70,904 corpus weight
- quantitatif
quantitatif
70,903 corpus weight
- radis
radis
70,902 corpus weight
- Ramsey
Ramsey
70,900 corpus weight
- RDS
RDS
70,899 corpus weight
What this shows « radis » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | radis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.di\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « radis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around radis (IPA \ʁa.di\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,099 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for radis, with forms such as "ardis", "raddis", and "radiss". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ras", "ris", "rai", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is radis, spelled R-A-D-I-S.
Definition
- 1Légume potager du genre Raphanus (famille des Brassicaceae), dont la racine est comestible.
- 2dans des tournures négatives Sou, argent. → voir rond
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how radis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lerat, devenue cérémonieuse, ne voulut pas de radis ; ça donnait la pituite.
Rien ne vaut le bon jus de radis!
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ardis
- raddis
- radiss
- radsi
- rdais
- rradis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of radis - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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